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Web Crush Wednesdays: All Hallow’s Read

What is All Hallow’s Read? Well, I’d let Neil Gaiman tell you, as it was his idea, but the youtube video of his introduction is ‘currently unavailable.’ (Here’s the blog post that started it all.) Basically, one day he asked himself why there weren’t more holidays where people gave out books.

I propose that, on Hallowe’en or during the week of Hallowe’en, we give each other scary books. Give children scary books they’ll like and can handle. Give adults scary books they’ll enjoy.

I propose that stories by authors like John Bellairs and Stephen King and Arthur Machen and Ramsey Campbell and M R James and Lisa Tuttle and Peter Straub and Daphne Du Maurier and Clive Barker and a hundred hundred others change hands — new books or old or second-hand, beloved books or unknown. Give someone a scary book for Hallowe’en. Make their flesh creep…

Give a scary book.

Basically, All Hallow’s Read is an initiative to give kids (and other people) scary books around and on Halloween. It’s a fun way to encourage reading and get in the holiday spirit at the same time!

You can learn more about All Hallow’s Read at their website, or by following the #AllHallowsRead hashtag on Twitter.

About Lady Saika

"We lead frantic lives. Filled with needs and responsibilities, but completely devoid of any actual purpose. I say let’s try to enjoy the simple things. Life should be like a basket of chicken wings: salty, full of fat and vinegar, and surrounded by celery you’ll never actually eat, even when you’re greedily sopping up the last viscous streaks of buffalo sauce from the wax paper with your spit-stained index finger. Yes, that is as life should be, Night Vale."

2 thoughts on “Web Crush Wednesdays: All Hallow’s Read”

Hey LS,
Are you taking suggestions for scary reads? Just found a book called Gods of The Nowhere: A Novel of Halloween by James TIpper mentioned on AHR and I’m half-way through it. Awesome! Perfect Halloween read for adults. It reads like a trip through a haunted house. This is the kind of book I’m always looking for and can never find! The thing is, just because a book is scary doesn’t always mean it’s “Halloweeny”, y’know? This one totally is.